[Milsurplus] Going though my father's Army papers there is a Certificate for his attendance at SCR 268 School!

[Ed Sharpe]

Hue -another interesting thing was the school was referenced in 1942 as SCR 268 RADIO SCHOOL!

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On Sunday, July 1, 2018 Ed Sharpe via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

Hue - think the  584  was   the  radar  for  fire  control   later and used  for a good  bit after war too. There are  people still using  584  peds and servos and dishes  out there ....


with  I  had a  complete  one    here  or  either of them!


268  would also control searchlights too...  early on I guess to light up the bad  planes!?

Ed#




In a message dated 7/1/2018 9:53:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time, Kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 


I don't know how widespread this nickname was, but my father referred to the 268 radar as "the laundry machine."

He was part of the gun crew of one battery of 4 90mm guns controlled by the radar.  ( The unit radio jeep had the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

AN/VRC-1 ). He said by the time of the invasion of southern France, "there was nothing left to shoot down", slight

exaggeration, so the guns were given to France. I wonder about the use of the 268 radar through the rest of the war.

Maybe the newer radar, number forgotten by me, supplanted the 268 ?

-Hue


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